Monday, August 14, 2006

CEASE FIRE STARTS

In Lebanon, as the clock struck 8, the streets of Beirut were littered with a new leaflet dropped by Israeli warplanes saying that Hezbollah had brought the people of Lebanon “to the edge of the abyss” and brought only “destruction, displacement and death.” The leaflet warned that the Israelis could return “with all necessary might.”

Does this sound like a country who welcomes a cease fire? Think they're pissed? Think they truly regret killing all the innocents and destroying their country?


JERUSALEM, Monday, Aug. 14 — A cease-fire negotiated by the United Nations went into effect at 8 a.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern time) on Monday, the 34th day of this latest Middle East conflict, with Israeli troops ordered to halt their offensive against Hezbollah and Lebanon agreeing to halt Hezbollah attacks on Israel

On Sunday, Israel bombed Beirut suburbs where Hezbollah is based and raced to consolidate its positions in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired more than 220 rockets into northern Israel and tried to send a truck bomb into the Israeli city of Metulla, the Israelis said.


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